Motivational Storytelling Quotes

When I hear people watched my film and then got on their own bikes and rode, whether a few miles or across America, to achieve their own goals - that excites me. It's the power of a story.

I was 21, when I heard the story that inspired this [thriller Allied], and I wasn't even a screenwriter then.

Don't get hung up on the hard times, the challenges. Tell your story by highlighting the victories. Because it's your victories that will inspire, motivate, encourage other people to live their stories in grander ways.

If Katie Couric or Anderson Cooper asked me to come on to their shows and give them content every single day, I would do it because that gives me access to a huge population of people that I can hopefully, in some way, plant seeds in fertile soil, and those seeds would grow into oak trees of freedom.

When you stand and share your story in an empowering way, your story will heal you and your story will heal somebody else.

I want my work to always be hopeful, in the end. You're giving me two hours, and, in Shots Fired's case, 10 hours of your life. I don't want you to ever leave something I've done feeling worse than when you came in. I hope the work can be aspirational, and aspirational doesn't have to be corny at all.

To tell my story, to touch lives.

I feel like my job is to make impact, spread love, tell great stories, inspire people, that's what I am going to do.

By coming forward and sharing your story, you don't know the countless lives you change.

The point of my work is to make it clear that all youth can make 'big miracles' happen.

I was inspired by how Red Bull isn't about the drink; it isn't about the product or the can. Red Bull is a platform to celebrate all that humans are capable of accomplishing. They built a lifestyle movement, a brand that sold this product.

If I was able to tell my story with the passion I felt, my lecture might help others find a path to fulfilling their own dreams.

I like going to schools and telling classes that when I was a child, I failed every "will this kid become a writer" test.